CHANUTE — With work expected to begin this spring to rebuild more than seven miles of U.S. 169 south of Iola — a project that will shut off access to much of the highway for up to 18 months — motorists farther south will have to wait a while longer for a separate paroject to get started .
Neosho County Commissioners were told Friday a separate project to rebuild 169 from the Humboldt-Chanute Road intersection south to Earlton will not happen this year.
“There is nothing in Neosho County,” Kansas Department of Transportation District Engineer Wayne Gudmonson said, according to the Chanute Tribune.
“It is still in the works and it is one of those pool projects,” Gudmonson said. “It hasn’t been forgotten. It just is not up in the forefront.”
The Allen County section, stretching from the Allen County Airport turnoff at Minnesota Road to Delaware (Tank Farm) Road, is expected to begin sometime between April and June and run through two full construction seasons.
The work will be done in two sections, the first from MInnesota Road to Hawaii Road, and then from Hawaii Road south to Delaware Road, to allow somewhat better access to Humboldt.
